As discontent increased during the 1900s three major philosophies were established. The three main philosophies that were established were socialism, communism, and fascism. Socialism was never officially promoted, but the Bolsheviks, the elite group when Lenin was in power in Russia, thought that socialism could be achieved through moderate reforms such as higher wages, increased suffrage, and social welfare. Communism was promoted by Lenin, his successor, and Stalin. Lenin developed the New Economic Policy, or NEP. Lenin saw the New Economic Policy simply as a temporary retreat from communism. His successor brought the Soviet Union back to the path of “pure” communism. Stalin developed five-year plans while the Soviet Union developed a planned economy, in which the government made all key economic decisions. A planned economy is communist. Fascism was promoted by Mussolini and Hitler. In 1919 Mussolini organized discontented Italians into the Fascist Party. Mussolini quickly gained power, by 1925 he had taken the title II Duce, “The Leader”. Mussolini preserved capitalism and created his “corporate state,” where representatives of business, labor, government, and the fascist party controlled industry, agriculture, and commerce. Hitler made Germany the second fascist state in Europe. Mussolini and Hitler were allies. Stalin relied on Lenin to further implement communism and the Soviet Union because they both shared the same goal, to generate the world revolution that Marx had predicted, while Hitler relied on Mussolini to further implement fascism by copying Mussolini's idea of ​​preserving capitalism. philosophies were developed was because of discontent. Socialism has many different theories of origin and has...... middle of paper ...... first changing implementations to gain more power. Stalin followed some of Lenin's implementations but did not follow all of them to gain more power for himself. Stalin and Lenin both had the same main goal, to create the world revolution that Marx had predicted, but Stalin also went against Lenin as well as put an end to all other political factions, such as the Bolsheviks that Lenin had organized. Hitler followed some of Mussolini's implementations but also went against some of them. Both Hitler and Mussolini preserved capitalism, but Hitler brought big business and labor under government control. As a result both supporting leaders, Stalin and Hitler, were more successful. Hitler almost conquered the world! This shows that to learn how to gain more power you need to maintain some of the plans of the old leaders and also create some of your own..